Paul Turek, MD, Author at The Turek Clinic

The Sunny Side of a Broken Back

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

I have a lot of patients in my practice who have broken their backs. Not figuratively by working so hard, but literally, by having spinal cord injuries. Some have been crushed by rolling logs, fallen from tall heights, been victims of shooting, dived into shallow pools or took an untoward jump while skiing or skateboarding. […]

One Child China

Posted on June 13, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

Just got back from China, from Beijing and Hong Kong to be exact. I lectured to several medical and academic institutions on where I believe men’s health is headed in the future. What I found was an audience eager to push the research frontiers in this field, however I also a sensed a lack of […]

The Sound and the Fury: Of Men and Maseratis

Posted on May 30, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

I am a Men’s Health specialist and a vintage car buff. On more than one early Sunday morning jaunt down the Pacific Coast Highway in an old Ghibli, I have reflected on how similar these two beasts are. 1. When they run, they run hard. Tune that old Italian just right and you are in […]

Synthetic Cells: The Latest Vinyl?

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

Believe it or not, science has now claimed to have made “synthetic life.” Life created from non-living substances. J Craig Venter and colleagues, after a decade of work, produced a man-made version of the entire DNA content (genome) of a bacteria (adding in a couple of harmless “watermarks” to track it) and inserted it into […]

Does Male Infertility Begin in the Womb?

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

A relatively alarming study was published a couple of years ago that suggested that a pregnant woman’s behavior can determine the fertility of her unborn son. Researchers looked at the sperm quality of 387 men and compared the data to the amount of beef their mothers consumed while they were pregnant. They found that the […]

The Curse of Women’s Urine

Posted on April 25, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

There must be something in the air… or water. The Bolivian President Evo Morales recently asserted publicly that hormones found in mass-produced foods are “feminizing” men. Speaking about chicken in Bolivia, which he believes are “loaded with feminine hormones,” he suggested that when men eat chicken “they are diverted from their nature as men.” So, […]

Getting it Just Right

Posted on April 18, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

Had a wonderful evening out with my wife last night at a Caetano Veloso concert at Masonic Hall on Nob Hill in San Francisco. Caetano Veloso is Brazil’s equivalent of Frank Sinatra and is endowed with an absolutely otherworldly voice and reigns from Bahia. He is an historically important figure having led the Bossa Nova […]

No Fizzy Colas in the Cathedral

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

How much coffee or tea do you consume everyday? Since many of us buy Slurpee sized cups of coffee in the morning, you should break those down into units of 8 ounce cups. How about cans of soda and in particular colas? Might be a good idea to keep track of this for a moment, […]

Handling The Truth

Posted on March 28, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

How would you react to a doctor who, instead of explaining the entirety of your medical options, simply said “trust me, this is the right choice.” Maybe that style of “care” worked a generation or two back, but today’s patients have access to any piece of medical information that their doctors do. Patients want to […]

Genome: Repair Thyself

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Paul Turek, MD

Imaging parking your car at home after work and all the nicks and scratches are removed while you sleep, before heading to work the next day. All shiny and new, polished even, while you sleep. Believe it or not, this is normally what happens to your genes and chromosomes on a minute-to-minute basis. DNA mismatch […]